2 One lying at the pool, 5 is healed of Christ on the Sabbath. 10 The Jews that rashly find fault with that his deed, 17 he convinceth with the authority of his Father,  19, 20 He proveth his divine power by many reasons, 45 and with Moses’ testimony.

After (A)that, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went to Jerusalem.

[a]And there is at Jerusalem by the place of the sheep, a [b]pool called in Hebrew [c]Bethesda, having five porches:

In the which lay a great multitude of sick folk, of blind, halt, and withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

For an Angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first, after the stirring of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

And a certain man was there, which had been diseased eight and thirty years.

When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he now long time had been diseased, he said unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

Jesus said unto him, Rise: take up thy bed, and walk.

And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and the same day was the Sabbath.

10 [d]The Jews therefore said to him that was made whole, It is the Sabbath day: (B)it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

11 He answered them, He that made me whole he said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

13 And he that was healed, knew not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away from the multitude that was in that place.

14 And after that, Jesus found him in the Temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

15 ¶ The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus that had made him whole.

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Footnotes

  1. John 5:2 There is no disease so old, which Christ cannot heal.
  2. John 5:2 Whereof cattle drank, and used to be plunged in; whereof there could not be but great store at Jerusalem.
  3. John 5:2 That is to say, the house of pouring out, because great store of water was poured out into that place.
  4. John 5:10 True religion is no more cruelly assaulted by any means, than by the pretence of religion itself.

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